The natural, distinct salt comes from local supplier Wight Salt and is hand-harvested off the island’s stormy southern coast.

As for the other ingredients, make the olives Italian (castelvetrano) and the vermouth French ( Noilly Prat); however, the success of this cocktail will always come down to the main spirit. This limited edition American bourbon comes in an elegantly elongated version of Woodford's Reserve Bourbon's standard bottle. Since these are handcrafted, each decanter is unique and features hand-pinched dentelle spikes and a neck ringed in 20-carat gold.

Sendivogius, the genius court alchemist, was begged by the King and Queen to distil a a spirit of such exceptional quality that the court could continue to drink all night and work all day. The design of the current LOUIS XIII decanter is inspired by a royal flask, which was found in 1569 on the battlefield of Jarnac in France. This 100% ultra-aged, Mexican blue agave tequila features an arresting ceramic bottle designed by founder Carlos Monsalve. Acquired by Paul-Émile Rémy Martin in 1850, the decanter's remarkable shape spurred him to model a brand new bottle evocative of its design. Using state-of-the-art, renewable solar electricity technology to distill carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with oxygen as the only byproduct, every bottle of Air Vodka produced results in the removal of a pound of carbon dioxide from the air.

About 200 years years ago, a glass-making apprentice accidentally picked up a bottle with his metal pincers while the glass was still soft. The U’Lukva Vodka bottle is a work of art, although a fairly impractical one that doesn’t really fit on any shelves of our bar. Jam Jar Gin's jars are distinctive, sturdy glassware that are conversation starters and spark the curiosity of the users. The flavor hits on the nose, which is best observed when drinking this vodka straight, yet even in the filthiest of martinis, this vodka won’t disappear into the background. A modern reinterpretation of the historic vodka enjoyed in the royal courts of Poland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the super-premium U'Luvka vodka has been racking up awards and accolades from around the world.Carlos Monsalve picked the colour red for the flower, to exhibit the vitality of life, and blue, the colour of the sky, to symbolise the social connections, which according to him are as limitless as the sky.

Apart from your regular, favourite spirits, we suggest you invest in some that look stunning and make your bar truly stand out. The best dirty vodka martinis are built on a base of ultra-clean and smooth-as-silk super-premium vodka with the right viscosity, limited sweetness and zero burn. Rochelt's bottles showcase this ‘pincer' bottle design and feature intricately crafted stoppers designed by German goldsmith Otto Jakob. It doesn’t get much better than this: 200-times distilled, Russian Standard Platinum is made with steppeland wheat and filtered water from Russia’s northwestern Lake Ladoga, resulting in a smooth, refined vodka that puts most other top-shelf picks to shame. This had one unfortunate side effect that the glasses could not be put down until the entire contents had been drunk.Along with the dome shape, the bottles also feature a small drawing depicting traditional Portuguese landscapes. Also, U’Lukva is so light and subtle, it would get completely lost mixed in a cocktail (or even in the proverbial vodka soda). The bottle's form is a celebration of traditional Portuguese architecture, especially its medieval castles and Roman forts featuring majestic domes. Rochelt's brandy is packaged in a striking emerald glass bottle featuring the famous Tyrolean glass ‘pincer' shape.